Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.